From: Bruce Momjian Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:34:25 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add documentation mention that full page writes have to be enabled for X-Git-Tag: recoveryinfrav9~42 X-Git-Url: http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/static/gitweb.js?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a256fe74ab011e156b6c043ecd175435ef2c4bdb;p=users%2Fsimon%2Fpostgres.git Add documentation mention that full page writes have to be enabled for full pages to be restored during recovery. Per private report from Michael Renner --- diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml index 426863d308..cff6fde731 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/wal.sgml @@ -543,7 +543,8 @@ then the checkpoint record; then it performs the REDO operation by scanning forward from the log position indicated in the checkpoint record. Because the entire content of data pages is saved in the - log on the first page modification after a checkpoint, all pages + log on the first page modification after a checkpoint (assuming + is not disabled), all pages changed since the checkpoint will be restored to a consistent state.